Gita Bhashya -Sankara 369

Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya

(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)

CHAPTER -9

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Traividyā mām somapāh pūta-pāpā
Yajñair-istvā svargatim prārthayante
Te punyam-āsādya surendra-lokam
aśnanti divyān-divi deva blmgān

20. The knowers of the three Vedas[1]. drinking soma and being purified from sin, worship Me by yajña and pray for passage to heaven; reaching the holy world of the Lord of the devas, they enjoy in heaVen the divine pleasures of the devas.

The knowers of the three Vedas, Rk, Yajus and the Sāman, drinking soma, amd being purified from sin, by that very drinking of the soman-juice (offered in the sacrifice), worship Me, in the form of vasus and the other gods, by yajña, sacrifices such as the Agnistoma, and pray for passage to heaven, attainment of heaven (svarga), (their goal). And. reaching as the fruit oi their good deeds, the holy world of the Lord of the devas, the abode oi Indra who had performed a hundred sacrifices, they enjoy in heaven the divine, extra-ordinary (aprākrta, super-natural) pleasures of the devas, gods.

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References and Context

  1. The reference is to the Kanna-Kanitu (Works Portion) alone of the Vedas, which forms the bulk of them.